On Einstein and God

Published on November 8, 2012

On October 8, 2012, a handwritten letter was set for auction on e-bay. It sold, 10 days later, with a winning bid of over $3M. The handwritten letter was penned by Albert Einstein to Jewish philosopher Eric B. Gutkind in January 1954, a year before Einstein’s death. In the letter, the Nobel Prize winning physicist called religion childish and made light the idea of Jewish “chosenness.”

Einstein, Kaplan and Heschel walk into a bar

By Roger Price
Published on November 1, 2012

Once dreaming of a Hebrew charter school, now only Mandarin is offered

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on September 27, 2012

When the Albert Einstein Academy for Letters, Arts and Sciences (AEA) opened in August 2010, part of the draw for parents was the chance for students at the Santa Clarita charter middle and high school to study Hebrew. Since then, AEA backers have submitted petitions to set up elementary schools in the Newhall School District, Los Angeles Unified School District and Ventura Unified School District, without success. In August 2012, a revised version of its twice-rejected petition for an elementary charter was submitted to the Saugus Union School District in Santa Clarita. Among the changes in the newest version was eliminating offering Hebrew at the school, at least initially.

Einstein online: Internet archive offers window into physicist’s life and work

Published on March 20, 2012

Ever wonder about Albert Einstein’s love life? Now you can get a firsthand glimpse by searching the newly improved Einstein Archives website, which relaunched Monday with expanded offerings. The online archive now makes available digitally 2,000 documents from Einstein’s papers and other sources, as well as a searchable catalogue of more than 80,000 documents held in the Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Schoenberg buys Einstein letter for Holocaust museum

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 18, 2011

Einstein letter sells for $14,000

Published on October 12, 2011

A letter written by Albert Einstein to a Jewish New York businessman was sold at auction for nearly $14,000.

Einstein letter on refugees sold for $13,936

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 10, 2011

A coup for Hebrew U—Gates to accept award

By Jacob Berkman
Published on July 8, 2008

Microsoft founder Bill Gates will receive the inaugural Einstein Award, the American fund-raising arm of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem announced Monday.

The award, which will be presented to Gates in December at a gala dinner in New York, is named for Albert Einstein, who helped found the university. It will be given only rarely to those who have made a significant impact on humanity, according to the organization's executive director, Peter Willner. American Friends officials say this is the first time that Gates is accepting an award from a Jewish or Israeli organization.

In Spring a reader’s fancy turns to thoughts of ... books

By Sandee Brawarsky
Published on March 15, 2007

In Spring a reader's fancy turns to thoughts of ... books.

Smarty Pants

By Abby Gilad
Published on October 14, 2004

Albert Einstein was a very smart man -- probably one of smartest people of all time.

Everything’s Relative

By Tom Tugend
Published on September 2, 2004

Simply named "Einstein," the nearly nine-month-long exhibit, the largest ever mounted by the Skirball Cultural Center, opens Sept. 14 and closes May 29, 2005.

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